In the time between childhood and womanhood, Rachel Moore and her family are caught up in the tumultuous era of the Civil War that rages back and forth across middle Tennessee. Along with her brothers, Jeremy and Josh, their widowed father, and their home - Mooreland Farms, widely known for breeding thoroughbred race horses, their world is in the direct path of unparalleled death and destruction. Of everyone in the family, Rachael is the least prepared for the tempest that soon engulfs their homeland. Already deprived of the love and guidance of a mother, the young and innocent Rachel is ill prepared for handling a relationship with the handsome, James Paul, noted rogue and womanizer. With the war at their doorstep, Jeremy and Josh join the Confederate army in the defense of their home, where they cross paths with Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest and other well known historical figures. However, when Major Franklin Corbey of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, and his Federal forces ride onto the land of this proud Moore clan, a 'war within a war' erupts, as two men vie for Rachel's heart